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Tending the Enemy is Nilah's second novel and includes several characters from her first novel, Home to Hidden Springs, taking steamboat Captain Matt Miller from his Texas home base at Caddo Lake into Union territory under orders from Robert E. Lee to carry supplies to Confederate forces along the Mason-Dixon line. On one such trip into Pennsylvania on the Ohio River, while disguised as a Union captain, he is seriously wounded, his boat damaged and he winds up under the care of a Union doctor's daughter. First believing he is a Union soldier, the doctor's daughter nurses him. Then she learns he is a rebel, presenting her with a decision she doesn't want to make....
First novel gets 5-star review on Amazon Kindle
Every one should read this book. I live near Caddo Lake. Nilah wrote a great description of it.
A laughing and crying book. I will recommend this book for everyone to read.
--Shirley Cauthorn, Atlanta, TX
A laughing and crying book. I will recommend this book for everyone to read.
--Shirley Cauthorn, Atlanta, TX
Nilah Turner's writing career Nilah Turner began her writing career as Nilah Rodgers, when dinosaurs typed on Royal manual typewriters to send dramatic human-interest stories to Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping and Ladies Home Journal. When her Readers Digest editor phoned to tell her she was one of only two writers to sell ten major articles to Readers Digest in one year. Her editor added, "and the other writer had a mental breakdown."
Instead of rejoicing, she worried about having a breakdown if she continued her writing pace. A major drop in the stock market and housing market ended that worry AND the freelance market. Magazines used in-house writers and down-sized employees. Having a mortgage, Nilah got her real estate brokers license and sold real estate for years before returning to writing dramatic stories again. HOME TO HIDDEN SPRINGS spans twenty-five years from 1840 when Texas was a Republic and offered land grants of 640 acres, and ends with the American Civil War in 1865. The novel is set in Jefferson, Texas, and the Caddo Lake area near Atlanta and Longview, Texas, where the author lived for twenty-five years. The story follows the disasters, recessions and upheavals of one woman whose circumstances force her to become strong, and ends after the Civil War changed millions of lives. |
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'Fantastic, enjoyable novel,' Lubbock reader says
I just finished reading your book , Home to Hidden Springs. Congratulations on writing about the frontier days of the Republic of Texas...I really enjoyed Chapter 11...hog killing, water bucket and dippers....very enjoyable reading....again congratulations on this fantastic book. --Charles Jones
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